#2669 Network Issues with Strata caused by AdGuard

Beschreibung

Model and engine
Model qwen3.8-flash-next-coder-iq1_m
Engine v0.1.44.1
Context 32,768 tokens
KV cache 8-bit, all in VRAM
Experts in VRAM 1,937 (3.7 GB)
Speculation MTP drafts up to 3 tokens, prompt lookup on
Images on

PC
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070, 12 GB
CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900F, 32 threads
RAM 64 GB

OS:  Windows 11 Pro
Version: 26H2
OS Build: 26300.9457

AdGuard 8.0.2

My deployment was causing intermitent network connectivity. It kept switching between "Server Not Reachable" to "idle" and failing 1 in 3 requests.
After a lengthy troubleshooting session, turns out the my local AdGuard installation was causing the issue.
Disabling loopback filtering seems to have sorted it from: Settings -> App Settings -> Advanced -> Filter localhost.
I also added the strata and python executables in the "Exclude apps from filtering by their full path".
One of the steps to troubleshoot it was using powershell + simple python server to loop through requests and see if it failed:

1..50 | % {
curl.exe -s -o NUL -w "%{http_code}" --max-time 5 http://127.0.0.1:8080/
 if ($LASTEXITCODE) { " FAIL exit $LASTEXITCODE" } else { "" }
} | Group-Object | Select Count, Name

Also checking providers in the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP). Getting an export with:
netsh wfp show state file=C:\Temp\wfpstate.xml

Then checking for <providerKey> and <name> for anything 3rd party.

I hope this helps someone